From hitting send before an email is ready to forwarding an email meant for a friend to a work colleague, email fails are all too easy to stumble into. It just takes a simple misclick of the mouse! But now, a simple click of the mouse can reel all of that potential embarrassment back in — at least if you're a Gmail user. Google just released a new feature for web-based Gmail that allows emailers to delay sending an email for a pre-set amount of time, ranging from five seconds to 30 seconds, after they've already hit send. In that delay, users have the option to snatch a near faux-pas back from cyberspace.
For anyone who wants to use this tool — which is likely to be just about everyone — the "undo send" feature must be selected manually by clicking on settings and then selecting the option from the general tab. Talk about a life saver.
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